Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-31
THE NATIONS CHIEFTAIN.

The President has accepted an invita-
ton to attend the Piedmont Exhibition at
Atlanta, Ga, and the statement is made
that he will arrive there on Monday even
ing, October 18th, and remain Tuesday
and Wednesday, 18th and19th. The Pres
ident will meet a cordial welcome in the
South, should he make the contemplated
visit, but we fear there are persons within
our borders who in their mistaken zeal to
pay homage to the Nations Chief, will do
more to defeat the Democratic ticket in
1888 than Blaine and Sherman, with their
bloody shirt devices, could accomplish du:
ring the entire campaign. Already are
these evidences cropping out, as may be
seen by the following dispatch of Satur-
day, from Atlanta:
"The Atlanta daily Capitol has created
q sensation by demanding that Jefferson
Davis should be invited to the Piedmont
Exposition, to be held here in October,
and that by his hand President Cleveland
should be welcomed. The Capitol asks
why Mr.. Davis has not been invited and
in%sinuates that it is because the Prohibit
tionists are prejudiced against him. 1t
accuses the people of Atlanta of tickle
ness, hypocrisy, or forgetfulness, and de-
clares that Henry w. Grady should be the
man to introduce Mr.. Davis to President
Cleveland. This act, it says, would alone
convince the North that when their South
ern cousins extend a welcome, it is from
the heart"
That soabsurd a proposition as the above
should "create Il sensation even in At
lanta, we are not surprised but the Won
der is that the editor making it has not
been arrested on a warrant Of lunacy and
quietly committed to a lunatic asylum.
We accord to Jefferson Davis all honor
and reverence to which he is entitled as
the representative Of a lost cause in which
his countrymen were identified but it
should be borne in mind that as the central
figure in that cause, though a harmless
old man, he ever will be distasteful and
repugnant to a large body Of those who
compose the Democratic party of the
North-men who fought honestly to main
tain the integrity of the Union. While
such q spectacle as that proposed by the
Atlanta lunatic would drive these men
from the Democratic party in 1888, it is
Just the character of ''incident" in which
the Republicans would delight, and from
which they would manufacture their thun-
der of the next campaign.
We suppose the President will have
sufficient sagacity to put his veto upon
any such nonsense as that contemplated
by the Capitol, while we doubt not Mr..
Davis would foresee its inevitable result.
WHIPPING OUT A RAILROAD.-About
a week ago the Richmond and Danville
Railroad advanced rates on manufactured
cotton goods to Eastern points, and at the
same time raised freights on coal from the
West. The cotton goods rate was changed
from the sixth to the fifth class, making an
advance of fourteen cents per hundred,
while the coal rate went up 80 cents a ton.
Both these advances fell heavily on the
cotton mills at Greenville. The annual
freight bill Of the Piedmont and Camper
down mills is over $50, 900, and the adj
yanced rate meant an increase of $4,000 a
year for the Piedmont, and $4,000 for
Camperdown. AS soon as the new rate
was announced, Col. Hammett, the presi-
dent of these two mills, at once began
shipping his goods to Charleston, and
thence North by steamer. The State rail-
road commission protects rates to Charles
ton, and the steamer company gave him a
cheap rate, so that the total was about the
same as the old all-rail rate. This has
gone on for a week. Thursday Col. Ham
NETT received a telegram from D. Card
we'll, freight and passenger agent of the
Richmond and Danville, announcing that
the old rate would be resumed from and
after Friday. Col. Hammett is so we'll
pleased with the water route that in view
of the reduction promised he may continue
to use it altogether. The result is a COM
plete victory for Col. Hammett's mills